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JFK averaged 41.79” from 1970 to 2002. Same old story of the thunderstorms weakening before reaching the South Shore. Didn’t notice much difference in the insects growing up back in Long Beach away from the marshes between the wetter and drier summers. But the marsh areas always had a very high number of mosquitos.

1.3 will Do it.

wow almost everyone averages less than the city lol, even Newark, LGA and White Plains. the average must have been even lower during the 80s when I grew up, do you know the 51-80 and 61-90 averages? 45 inches sounds much more normal to me and probably around 42 inches when I was growing up.

an advantage of wired stations is that they update much more frequently. and you can power them with an electrical outlet and not have to use batteries.

JFK averages less than NYC. As the best frontal convergence is usually to the west. The heaviest amounts from 2003 to 2024 were at NYC and New Brunswick. The greatest difference between JFK and NYC is during the warm season with the sea breeze fronts to the west of JFK. 2003 to 2024 annual average rainfall NYC….52.71” NBW….51.96” EWR….48.86” LGA…..48.04” HPN….46.81” ISP…….46.70” JFK……45.09” May to October NYC…28.79” JFK….23.70” November to April NYC…..23.98” JFK……21.38”

we have that nasty exotic mosquito disease now too. I didn't see all these mosquitos in June and July when we were baking, they seem to come out of nowhere now. I wonder what got them going in October and not before this? Or maybe I didn't notice them when it was very hot and they were hiding in the shade lol

I had a weather wizard III before the equipment I have now. About a year or two ago I actually bought a weather wizard III on eBay just to get the anemometer. It works with the vantage pro. I saved about $100

got down to freezing at the house this morning - ending the growing season. The airport and most other non low lying areas escaped to fight another few days

"Epic flood breaks epic drought." - @usedtobe

1.59” here in E CT after the 1.79” last weekend from the NorEaster. No Stein here

End looks near. Really dumped after lunch time. 1.70"

This year has been absolutely horrible for small biting/stinging winged critters.

We have already had someone lighting fires along 540 in Raleigh.

Nice burst of heavy rain and wind when that back edge came through. Up to 1.24”

Once stations got wireless I got much more interested in getting my own station, plus where I was in life at the time. I do remember putting my old Weather Monitor II on two different roofs in the late 90's and early 00's, not the best move to have the entire station up there but live and learn. Its much easier all around now. I remember you giving me pointers on how to connect to my computer and then that got even easier with the Davis WeatherLink Live.

1. 12Z UKMET (go to 168) maps once again have the low stay in the S Car and go west into Nicaragua; low is a bit stronger with it down to 1003 at strongest, which should easily be strong enough to be a TD although the textual output doesn’t show that. Will UK for 98L be a miserable fail, the big winner, or in between? Stay tuned! 2. 12Z JMA (goes to 192): has a cat 1 hurricane headed due west to just offshore the Nicaragua/Honduras border

If that pans out on the Euro, I'll donate to the board. Euro long range QPF bias is real.

You can't really compare the two because we are on the coast and get a bunch of systems they miss out on. So I have no idea.

Today here I’m experiencing the first widespread dewpoints below 50 of the season. They’re actually way down near 40. It’s a beautiful sunny day. I’m looking forward to my evening walk.

Yes me also. Had Davis equipment back in the 90's before the vantage pro came out. Also had a heathkit thermometer which I built with my dad probably 45 years ago.

How is it that we always have a ton of mosquitoes and gnats in summers when it rains a lot though and very few in a summer like 2002 or 2010 when it's dry?

It’s fitting that we end the drought and finish the year above average precip-wise.

that's good for average annual temperature but for measuring summer heat we have to go by 90, 95 and 100 degree days. Of course it's rapidly warming in the winter, but this isn't the case in terms of our hot summers. This was the first summer in a long time when it hit 100+ , it's been more than a decade since we've had a summer this hot.

Remember the old days Rob of installing weather equipment...no wireless yet...running wires, drilling holes in the house to get the wires to the inside unit. I've had an anemometer up on the roof for as long as I can remember... luckily it's a ranch home so not too high... don't think I can go up there anymore so hoping it continues to work well.

What is it for JFK, I can already tell the rainfall averages by decade are much lower here. Our summers are usually dry and have been ever since I can remember (starting with the early 80s).